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MESSAGE 


FROM 

THE PRESIDENT OF T HE UNITED STATES, 

TRANSMITTING 



OF THE 


DIRECTOR OF TIIE MINT, 


OF THE 


OPERATIONS OF THAT ESTABLISHMENT 

DURING 


THE LAST YEAR. 


JANUARY 6, 1814. 
Ordered to lie on the table. 


WASHINGTON: 


A. h > G. WAY, PRINTERS. 


1814. 






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MESSAGE. 


2o the Senate and House of Representatives of the 

United States . 

I communicate tor the information of Congress, the 
Beport of the Director of the Mint, of the operation of 
that establishment during the last year. 

JAMES MADISON. 

January 6, 1814. 


MINT OF THE UNITED STATES, 


January 1 , 1814. 

SIR, 

I HAVE now the honor of laying- before you a Report 
of the operations of the mint for the last twelve months. 

From the treasurer’s statement of the coinage, herewith trans- 
mitted, it will appear that during that period there have struck and 
issued, 

In gold coins, 95,428 pieces, amounting to 477,140 dollars : In silver 
coins, 1,241,903 pieces, amounting to 620,951 dollars, 50 cents: In 
copper coins, 418,000 pieces, amounting to 4,180 dollars: making in 
the whole, one million, seven hundred and fifty-five thousand, three 
hundred and thirty-one pieces of coin, amounting to one million, one 
hundred and two thousand, two hundred and seventy-one dollars and 
fifty cents. 

I have the honor to be, 


"With sentiments of the most perfect esteem, 
Your obedient faithful servant, 

R. PATTERSON. 


James Madison, 

President of the United States. 


$ Statement of the Coins struck at the Mint of the United States, from the 1st of 

January to the 31st of December, 1813, inclusive, viz: 



Number of 
Pieces. 


Half Eagles. 

Amount in J)nl. 
lurs and Cents. 

TOTALS. 

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Quarter ending 30tli June, ........ 

ditto, 30th September, ....... 

ditto, 31st December 

28.398 

23.030 

44.000 

141,990 

115,150 

220,000 


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93,428 

Pieces of gold coins, ......... 

93,428 





Total amount of gold coins, 



477, IF) 









Half Hollars. 



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Quarter ending 31st March. . . . 

ditto, 30th J une, ......... 

ditto, 30th September, ....... 

ditto, 31st December, ........ 

338,63(5 

337,965 

124,510 

440,772 

169,328 
168.982 30 
62,235 
220,386 


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1,241,903 

Pieces of silver coins, 

1,241.903 





Total amount of silver coins. 



620,951 30 






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Quarter ending 30th June, ........ 

ditto, 31st December, ........ 

196.000 

222,000 

1.960 

2,220 


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418,000 

Pieces of copper coins, 

418,000 



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Total amount of copper coins, 



4,180 





Number, 

1,735,331 

Of the coins, Amount of all the coins in 1813, 

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MINT OF THE UNITED STATES, 

TREASURER'S OFFICE, Philadelphia, December 81 , 1813 . 

JAMES RUSH 



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